Ludovico Ariosto Quotes
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.
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Only lies and evil come from letting people off.
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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.
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The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
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I am hoping for a long career.
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I must be the only person in 'Strictly' history who's actually put on weight during rehearsals.
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.
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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
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The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth.
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The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.
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Our country must be strong enough to solve problems, and that means we must learn how to work together again.
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When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.
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The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
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It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
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And as secretary of state, I fought hard for American businesses to get a fair shot around the world and to stop underhanded trading practices like currency manipulation and the theft of intellectual property.
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Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
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Di voce in voce e d'una in altra orecchiaIl grido e 'l bando per la terra scorse.
